Well, I played with Glom quite a bit today. I was able to get all the examples to open except the Film example. However, I was unable to see a pattern in the opening process. It seemed hit and miss. I think the program is not working right but don't know for sure. It might be that my unfamiliarity with postgres and linux databases generally (I still use dos foxpro 2.6) is the main problem. Would be great if someone with more familiarity with glom would give it a try. I am pretty sure that the example databases can be opened, given enough tries and a little luck.

And, its possible that the program itself has bugs. Again, would be great if someone who has used Glom could tell us what is going on in some detail.

I am probably the worse person in the world to be saying this, but I think the install still needs a little tweaking.

In VL we have 2 styles of init scripts the Slackware style scripts in /etc/rc.d/ and the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/The service script manages the startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/The error: "service postgresql is not active." simple means that the service script does not know about the postgresql startup script.

If you were to copy /etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql to /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql and then add the service with vasm or vsrvset or even service, then what you would have would be equivalent to the lines you added to rc.local and rc.local_shutdown.

I have heard that glom can use sqlite. Having no luck so far with postgresql, I thought I would try to see if Glom would recognize sqlite. Went to the repositories, and it shows that sqlite is installed on my system, but gslapt won't allow me to reload it or remove it. It seems to just exist and I can't recall how it got onto my system.

Figured out how to install from .xz BUT on ./configure notice that glom needs a lot of gnome files that are not in the VL repositories (or, more accurately, the required version of which is not in the vector repositories).

So, anyone know how I would install a recent version of gnome on my VL system, where I could still run xfce but would also have the necessary gnome files to run glom? The sole purpose of installing gnome would be to get those files. I do not want to run gnome.